Read the poem “Sea Rose,” by H.D. Rose, harsh rose, marred and with stint of petals, meagre flower, thin, sparse of leaf, more p
recious than a wet rose single on a stem? — you are caught in the drift. Stunted, with small leaf, you are flung on the sand, you are lifted in the crisp sand that drives in the wind. Can the spice-rose drip such acrid fragrance hardened in a leaf? Which modernist technique does the poem utilize?
There are many modernist techniques, most prominent being imagism, used here to affect your senses while you're imagining what is being described. This was pretty common among poets of the modernist era, especially those like Ezra Pound.
"Sea Rose" is a poem written by H.D Rose and published in 1916. The poem describes in depth a rose that is exposed to the elements, and as H.D Rose adds layers of description to the poem, the rose becomes more unique. Imagism is the modernist technique that the poem utilize. An early 20th century poetic movement, imagism relied on the precise description of concrete images, with the use of clear and direct language, instead of the traditional poetic diction.
The correct answer is: __________________________________________________________ [B]: "The speaker's mental state shifts more and more towards madness." __________________________________________________________
a point of view and a viewpoint are essentially the same thing. They both refer to an attitude or a way of thinking about a particular subject, e.g. Try looking at things from a different point of view. Try looking at things from a different viewpoint.
